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It's Kitsune GONG! week!

On this episode, we chat with Konami! We talk about her starting her career, joining Stardom, Tokyo Cyber Squad, leaving Stardom and her recent run as a freelancer.

Konami will be part of the Kitsune Women's Wrestling event, GONG!, on October 22nd in Los Angeles, California.

Thank you to Derek Kolterman for interpreting.

Konami was so great to chat with, please have a listen.

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On this episode we chat with Rina Amikura. We talk about her upcoming trip the US, her wrestling background and about transitioning from Actwres Girlz to Colors.

Rina will be part of the Kitsune Women's Wrestling event, GONG!, on October 22nd in Los Angeles, California.

Thank you to Derek Kolterman for interpreting.

Amin was so much fun to chat with, please have a listen.

Social Media:

Rina Amikura

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Kitsune Women's Wrestling

Tickets to the debut event

Twitter

Joshi Shirts

⁠Wrestling T Shirts – Joshishirts⁠

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This episode is a special one.

We welcome to the show from Pro Wrestling Wave, Yuki Miyazaki. She has been a favorite of mine for many, many years.

Yuki came into the business in a time where training was brutal. She persevered and succeeded in wrestling.

She is still going strong, having amazing matches.

Yuki talks about mixing deathmatch and comedy into wrestling.

It was a sincere pleasure speaking with her.

We hope to have many more from Pro Wrestling Wave on the show.

Thank you, Derek Kolterman for interpreting.

Social Media:

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Pro Wrestling Wave

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Youtube

Official Website

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Facebook

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We have two big guests this week. First, we are joined by 'The Warmaster' Josh Barnett who talks about how Japanese women are trained in the dojo system in Japan. He has terrific insight.  Later in the show, we catch up with 'Hell's Favorite Harlot' Priscilla Kelly who chats about her experiences wrestling for Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling and the DDT promotion.

Also on the show:

We look at the top 5 headlines of the week, including a surprising  retirement announcement.

The Joshi show of the week is the November 23rd Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling show from Shinkiba 1st Ring.

We look ahead to the calendar for shows this week in Japan.

We see where Joshi wrestlers are performing out side of Japan.

For tickets:

See Meiko Satomura in Seattle for Defy: https://www.defywrestling.com/

See Meiko in the UK with Progress: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/progresswrestling/287190

See Tam Nakano and Mayu Iwatani in Southern California: https://www.charaexpo-usa.com/ticketing

Eve-Riot Grrrls of Wrestling Present: Wrestle Queendom 3: https://www.evewrestling.com/tickets/

Our Sponsors This Week:

QuietWyatt Designs: https://www.facebook.com/QuietWyattDesigns/

The Level Up Pro Wrestling School: https://leveluprowrestling.wixsite.com/levelupprowrestlings

Social Media:

Please follow Josh Barnett on Twitter @joshlbarnett

Please follow Priscilla Kelly on Twitter @priscillakelly_

You can follow Eric Howard on Twitter @ericsandiego and the show @thejoshipod

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'The Renaissance Woman' Hyan joins the show and talks about her summer in Tokyo wrestling for Marvelous, Sendai Girls and Pro Wrestling Wave. She goes into the day-to-day life of living, training and performing in Japan and talks about her favorite things about Tokyo.

Also on the show:

You can get a The Joshi Pod sticker!

We look at the top 5 headlines of the week, including saying goodbye to Gatoh Move's Thailand branch.

The Joshi show of the week is the finals of Stardom's 2019 Tag League.

We look ahead to the calendar for shows this week, featuring Tokyo Joshi Pro's grudge match between Rika Tatsumi and Saki.  Can Rika save Misao?

We see where Joshi wrestlers are performing out side of Japan.

For tickets:

See Meiko Satomura in Seattle for Defy: https://www.defywrestling.com/

See Meiko in the UK with Progress: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/progresswrestling/287190

See Tam Nakano and Mayu Iwatani in Southern California: https://www.charaexpo-usa.com/ticketing

Our Sponsors This Week:

QuietWyatt Designs: https://www.facebook.com/QuietWyattDesigns/

The Level Up Pro Wrestling School: https://leveluprowrestling.wixsite.com/levelupprowrestlings

Social Media:

You can follow Eric Howard on Twitter @ericsandiego and the show @thejoshipod

Please follow Hyan on Twitter @_thehyan

Another fun follow on Twitter to stay up to date on TJPW @ddtpro_eng

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The Fallen Flower Kikyo joins to discuss her career and the career changing event that happened in the Stardom ring with Tam Nakano at Shinkiba 1st Ring in July of 2018. You will want to hear her tell her story. Follow Kikyo on Twitter @fallenkikyo

Also on the show:

We will look at the top 5 headlines of the week

Also, we take a look at the Joshi show….s of the week.

We look ahead to the calendar for upcoming shows in Japan

We will see where Joshi wrestlers are performing abroad

Our Sponsors This Week:

QuietWyatt Designs: https://www.facebook.com/QuietWyattDesigns/

The Level Up Pro Wrestling School: https://leveluprowrestling.wixsite.com/levelupprowrestlings

Ground Zero Pro Wrestling: https://www.facebook.com/GroundZeroSD/

You can follow Eric Howard on Twitter @ericsandiego and the show @thejoshipod

We are joined this week by the voice of Gatoh Move, Pumi. He talks about the wrestling scene in Thailand, his experiences doing play-by-play with several Japanese promotions and working alongside Emi Sakura at Gatoh Move. We discuss Riho and Lulupencil. He talks about what makes Gatoh Move unique and how it is allowing people to live out their dreams.

The show also features news and the upcoming calendar of Joshi wrestling events...and somebody pinned a chair to become a champion!

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We are joined this week by Jim Valley from the Wrestling Observer website.  We chat about his experience doing the play-by-play at the Stardom show this past April, his many trips to Japan and his Pacific Rim Podcast with Fumi Saito.

The show also features news and the upcoming calendar of Joshi wrestling events...who stole Maki Itoh's bicycle?

Lulupencil versus Antonio Honda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zx2WeoTGZ8

Joshi Wrestling Crowd Funding in Italy

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/joshi-wrestling-in-italy#/

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My name is Eric Howard and I have become a huge fan of Japanese women’s professional wrestling.

I have made a few trips to Japan and each time I went, the Joshi shows blew me away.

I have seen Stardom, Tokyo Joshi Pro, Seadlinnng, Wave and Gatoh Move live in Japan. I love me some Gatoh move. Hi Obi and Lulupencil.

I want to make this show friendly for long-time fans and newcomers to joshi wrestling.

We will look at the current state of Joshi wrestling

Also, we will take a look at the calendar for upcoming shows in Japan and some of the big matches scheduled and what happened to get us to the matches.

We will share where Joshi performers travelling outside of Japan are wrestling.

We will also take a weekly leap into the crazy thing called the internet to learn more about current and former Joshi performers and make suggestions on matches from years past that you should check out.

In future episodes, we will also speak with some of the Joshi performers themselves, foreigners that have travelled to Japan to perform and media that covers the exciting Joshi world!

Photos by Eric Howard

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On this episode we are joined by Billie Starkz.

She is fresh off her first tour of Japan with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling.

Billie faced top stars Miyu Yamashita and Yuka Sakazaki during her tour.

Though still a high school student, she is managing it along with a burgeoning pro wrestling career.

She has also wrestled for GCW, AEW and many others.

Billie is one to watch.

Please have a listen!

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Instagram

Official Website

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The Joshi Pod

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Facebook

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Pro Wrestling Tees

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Yume O Yume (Dream your Dream) by reiswerk (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.  Ft: veezyn